Re: [PHP] SCanning text of PDF documents

[Frank Arensmeier <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A reliable solution depends partly on the pdf document itself.  
Consider if your pdf document contains roted text or text that spans  
about several different blocks/pages. My experience with ps2acsii and  
other ghostscript related tools is that sometimes it works quite  
well, sometimes the output is rather messy.

The most reliable way of extracting text from a pdf is (I think) a  
product called PDF TET from PDFlib Gmbh. Yes, it costs some money for  
a license, but you are able to get almost everything out of the pdf  
then.

http://www.pdflib.com/products/tet/

Maybe some magic with OpenOffice could do the trick as well?

//frank

15 maj 2008 kl. 10.19 skrev Angelo Zanetti:

> Hi All.
>
> This is a quick question.
>
> A client of ours wants a solution that when a PDF document is  
> uploaded that
> we use PHP to scan the documents contents and save it in a DB.
>
> I know you can do this with normal text documents using the file  
> commands
> and functions.
>
> Is it possible with PDF documents?
>
> My feeling is NO, but perhaps someone will prove me wrong.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Angelo
>
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